GREENVILLE, SC. (WSAV) — South Carolina Ladies’s Basketball defeated Texas 64-45 on March 9 to safe its ninth SEC championship within the final 11 seasons.
After the sport, WSAV Sports activities Director Joey Lamar spoke with Gamecocks’ legendary head coach Daybreak Staley.
Joey Lamar: “Coach, this sport was a revenge sport, such as you stated, since you need to get again at Texas. However now the shift focuses on the NCAA event. Do you assume this crew has achieved sufficient to be the primary seed or the primary seed for the large dance?
Daybreak Staley: “Sure. I imply, I do not assume there is a query in regards to the primary seed. There’s in all probability a query in regards to the primary general. I do not know if we’ll be there. However if you happen to blindly put our profitable proportion, our power, what we have labored with, , we’d be one that can look higher than everyone else’s.
JL: “Coach, now I all the time ask you a basketball query, Then I ask you one off query. Proper now, you might be type of unofficially just like the spokesperson for ladies’s basketball, and never solely you, however your crew as effectively. Is that strain on you? And I do know you may deal with that strain, however what about your crew who’re 17, 18, 19 years previous, 20 years previous?”
DS: “You recognize, I imply, I believe our success places us within the highlight a bit bit greater than different packages and different coaches. I believe we’re actually respectful of the sport we actually prefer it. I like girls’s basketball. I like the truth that we get to signify it. We need to do it in a means, so our sport continues to develop.”
Staley stated {that a} participant’s illustration is deeper than a single particular person.
“You recognize, younger persons are our younger individuals. They signify their households. So, I believe once we put that in perspective, you may’t go improper. They’re all the time going to do the fitting factor once they know their household’s concerned in it they usually do not need to do something that might embarrass them.”
